From owner-freebsd-net Thu Oct 5 7: 2:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from bastuba.partitur.se (bastuba.partitur.se [212.209.169.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1989837B502; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 07:02:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elbas.partitur.se (elbas.partitur.se [212.209.169.222]) by bastuba.partitur.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA81896; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:02:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from partitur.se (localhost.partitur.se [127.0.0.1]) by elbas.partitur.se (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e95E2HH02567; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:02:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Message-ID: <39DC89E9.6569F@partitur.se> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 16:02:17 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: sv, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Sayer Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bridged vmnet make NIS go berzerk killing servers with icmp msgs References: <87aeck14mk.fsf@palle.girgensohn.se> <39DC81E1.2C0F7315@quack.kfu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nick Sayer wrote: > > Palle Girgensohn wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > Sorry for crossposting, but I'm not certain wheather this is -net or > > -emulation; probably both... > > I see a similar failure every once in a while on FreeBSD machines that > are NIS clients that are not running vmware, though it sounds to me like > you are seeing it a lot more frequently. Actually, the clients are not necessarily using vmware, just the vmnet interface and a bridge to fxp0 or xl0. I suspect there is a problem with nis and bridges... > I can sometimes precipitate this by disconnecting an NIS client from the > net briefly, using NIS, then reconnecting it. It ends up in the icmp > supression state and the only way out is the history eraser button. you mean that after disconnecting the client, you do some NIS operations? > Our master is a Solaris 2.x x86 machine, though. ok... Does that matter? Isn't it the client failing? How can I debug this? I really need to get it fixed. running natd and private nets for vmware on every system isn't really an option (well, I can cope, but I'd rather not...) /Palle -- Partitur Informationsteknik AB Wenner-Gren Center +46 8 566 280 02 113 46 Stockholm +46 70 785 86 02 Sweden girgen@partitur.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message